We must not think that by saying yes to sex, one says no to power.
MICHEL FOUCAULTThe individual is the product of power.
More Michel Foucault Quotes
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Government is the right disposition of things.
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I’m not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.
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Everything is dangerous, nothing is innocent.
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I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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It’s amazing how people like judging.
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Madness is the false punishment of a false solution, but by its own virtue, it brings to light the real problem, which can then be truly resolved.
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Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.
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The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness.
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What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?
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People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do, but what they don’t know is what they do does.
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With humanity, life has ended up with a living creature that never quite finds itself in the right place, a living creature destined to wander and endlessly make mistakes.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself.
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It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.
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